Much More on the Moldovan Flower Revolution.

Previous posts here and here.

Here is a link towards a live webcam, of Chisinau.

The public television is protected by people handling Kalashnikov weapons and probably also snipers (according to eye witnesses) Here is the VIDEO.


V. Voronin, the leader of the Party of Communist agreed to the demand of re-counting the votes and made an official request at the Constitutional Court on this matter.

"The recounting of votes, will be an important reason to reinstall political stability, peace and mutual confidence in Moldova", Voronin said.

Despite the call of the opposition for a higher, intensified, anticommunist protest on friday, only about eight hundred protesters marched in the center of Kishinev.

For many observers, the low participation was caused by fear of being arrested and kidnapped on the streets by the police.

Alicia Radu, director of the Moldova's weekly newspaper, Ziarul de Garda, told CNN Friday that attacks from authorities against journalists are the worst she has seen in her 20 years of experience as a journalist.Many romanian reporters were detained, the last one was a Antena3 reporter (a few minutes ago); also a swedish reporter was interrogated by the Moldovan police.

According to the Kosmopolito blog, a number of well known Moldovan civil society leaders issued a statement on the crisis: Declaration regarding the escalating social and political situation in Moldova after the parliamentary elections of April 5, 2009 (pdf)

The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) also published a 'Moldovan NGO statement': A Sustainable Solution to Political Crisis in Moldova Due to security concerns, the organisations behind it are not named.

One of the worrying developments in Moldova seems to be the deteriorating situation for journalists. Reporters without Borders "is very disturbed that the Moldovan authorities have been arresting journalists and even using violence against them."

According to Nicu Popescu, several cyber attacks were carried out against Moldovan news sites. He also reports about FT and BBC journalists that were not allowed to enter the country.

Next, two videos which are showing, according to those who recorded them, how Moldovan police is used to instigate violence and chaos among the protesters.

Reuter's analyst,Conor Humphries, wrote today that Russia's sharp reaction to the violent anti-government protests in Moldova's capital this week betrayed deep-rooted fears that the global economic crisis might spark mass protests on its own streets.

Crowds of Moldovan students denouncing alleged election fraud by the ruling Communists smashed their way into the parliament and set it ablaze last Tuesday. The authorities responded with a crackdown and mass arrests.

For Moscow's ruling class, the protests revived bad memories of street rallies in ex-Soviet republics Ukraine and Georgia that toppled pro-Moscow regimes, and raised fears that young Russian crowds might one day slip out of the Kremlin's control.

In Russia, Roumanians fom Moldova are attacked.